Jeremy Renner remembers all of the pain he experienced after being critically injured by his snowplow three months ago, he said in an emotional first interview since the accident.
The “Avengers” actor suffered a collapsed lung, a broken clavicle and shoulder, eight broken ribs and multiple broken bones in his face and legs when his 14,000-pound snowplow ran over him on Jan. 1. ABC released a preview clip Wednesday of Renner’s conversation with Diane Sawyer about the incident.
“I was awake through every moment,” Renner, 52, says in the interview, which is set to air April 6 at 10 p.m. ET.
Renner was injured near his Reno, Nevada-area home when he attempted to stop the moving snowplow from hitting his nephew, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office in Nevada said in a January report.
“I’d do it again, because it was going right at my nephew,” Renner told Sawyer.
The interview marks the most detailed account of the accident by Renner, who has chronicled his recovery on social media. In January, Renner tweeted that he broke at least 30 bones. On Sunday, he posted a video showing him on an anti-gravity treadmill — the first look at him walking since his injuries.
Renner made his Marvel film debut as the arrow-shooting superhero Hawkeye more than a decade ago. His character is the focus of the 2021 Disney+ series “Hawkeye.” Renner, a two-time Oscar nominee, also leads the crime drama series “Mayor of Kingstown.”
The actor choked back tears when Sawyer asked him about using sign language to tell his family “I’m sorry” after the accident.
“I’ve lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience,” Renner said, “but I’ve been refueled and refilled with love and titanium.”
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